The One That Got Away

Infobox Film
name = The One That Got Away


image_size = 185px
caption = DVD cover
director = Roy Ward Baker
producer = Earl St. John
Julian Wintle
writer = Book:
Kendal Burt
James Leasor
Screenplay:
Howard Clewes
narrator =
starring = Hardy Krüger
music = Hubert Clifford
cinematography = Eric Cross
editing = Sidney Hayers
distributor = Rank Organisation
released = fy|1957
runtime = 111 minutes
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0050803

"The One That Got Away" is a fy|1957 World War II film directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen. The screenplay was written by Howard Clewes based on the 1956 book of the same name by Kendal Burt and James Leasor, which chronicled the true exploits of "Oberleutnant" Franz von Werra, a German flyer shot down over England.

Plot

Franz von Werra (Hardy Krüger) is shot down during the Battle of Britain, and captured soon afterwards. Sent to a POW camp in the north of England, he makes a number of escape attempts, on one occasion getting as far as the cockpit of an aircraft he was trying to steal while passing himself off as a Dutch pilot on a secret mission. He is then sent to Canada, where he escapes from a heavily guarded train. Walking overland and crossing a frozen river, he manages to enter the United States, which at that time was still neutral, and claim asylum.

Aftermath

Despite the attempts of the Canadian government to get the U.S. to return him, Von Werra was allowed to return to Germany, the only German POW to do so.

Von Werra did not survive the war. On a routine flight his plane crashed into the sea north of Vlissingen in the Netherlands, probably due to engine failure. Neither Von Werra's body nor the aircraft were found.

Cast

External links

*imdb title|0050803
*tcmdb title|17691
*amg movie|1:36442